Wooden Scale

Object/Artifact

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Perth Museum

Wooden Scale: Object-Artifact-Scale
Wooden Scale

Object-Artifact-Scale

Name/Title

Wooden Scale

Entry/Object ID

925.225.1a-c

Description

Purchased by the donor at the sale of belongings of Alexander McGarry, hotel keeper Innisville Drummond TWP Lanark County Ont. This old time apparatus for weighing groceries. Consisting of a poised beam with two opposites homemade substitute for the usual metal dishes(?) or scales may have been first used in a pioneer store. It has two wooden boards which are secured by string and attached to an Iron handle.

Material

Wood